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Do you feel that America, as a whole, today is dumb, or dumbed down?

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  • Marduk
    Lv 7
    3 years ago
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    Read a book called Fantasyland: America first 500 years by Kurt Anderson. Americans have been dupes since day one.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    today's average IQ ( which is always 100) would be 80 or less 30 years ago

  • lare
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Trump certainly hopes that to be true.

  • 3 years ago

    It's been dumbed down in the last 50 years.

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  • 3 years ago

    That we are dumbed down in STEM ( science engineering, technology and mathematics) is beyond doubt. The interesting question is why since intelligence levels haven't changed.

  • Jim
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    The internet has make information as stupid or as smart as you want it to be. America has always had a lot of dumb people in it do to a lack of resources and opportunities now the only reason to be stupid is by choice.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    I'm not blind.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Leftist idiots are pretty stupid

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    IQ is dropping with the browning of the country. 84-IQ Mexicans don't make us stronger.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    just the left wing.

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